Month: January 2017

I promised that this post would be superficial, and I wasn’t lying. Our Christmas provided a veritable cornucopia of fabulous skin products. My daughters are pretty much obsessed with their pores. During one of our weekend trips to a soccer tournament in November, somewhere between game two and team dinner, M declared an emergency. She … [Read more…]

I promise that the next post won’t be political at all. In fact, it will be both metaphorically and literally superficial. But not today. The night before the march I still hadn’t gotten around to choosing what to say on the other side of my sign. Then I was chatting with my sister who wasn’t … [Read more…]

So, we marched! Actually, we did quite a bit of very slow shuffling. But I’m so glad we went. We boarded a bus just before 7:30 am. Our bus organizers were awesome: they had coffee and bagels and fruit for everyone as well as purple sashes for us all to share so that we could … [Read more…]

On Friday, J played hooky from school to go to a gymnastics meet. I’ve said before (and again) that these meets can be pretty stressful. The stress begins early with trying to get J to eat breakfast when she’s too nervous to be hungry, followed by quick little panic attacks when we can’t find the … [Read more…]

We’ll be marching down in New York City this Saturday! Shortly after the election the girls and I went to something-or-other billed as a demonstration, and we made signs and were all revved up, and then it was just. . . sad. It was like an extra-sad funeral service for old former hippies. We wanted … [Read more…]

Years ago we painted J’s room a deep, deep turquoise because that’s what she wanted, even after we gently advised her that it was awfully dark. Honestly, I think that she had second thoughts pretty quickly, but it took a long time for her to actually say, yes, she wishes she’d chosen a lighter color … [Read more…]

I just wrote a KOAA Review of Catamount, if you’d like to take a look. There are links to other ski reviews on this page. – – – – – – – – – The other day, I showed up at a meeting where I knew almost no one, and right away, one of the … [Read more…]

I was putting together an A to Z list of vegetables and how to get kids interested in eating them for KidsOutAndAbout.com, and I realized that I had a few recipes that I wanted to share that I can’t find anywhere else on the internet. So I’ve added them here. I actually love the book … [Read more…]

If you visit KidsOutAndAbout.com, you may have noticed the Field Goods ads on the home page. I totally scored, because as part of the deal, I signed up for the subscription food service. Now I pick up my shares every Friday at the JCC, and the girls arrive home from school asking about what we … [Read more…]

I don’t know if the rest of you do this, but when I go shopping for presents for other people, I often find the perfect gift for me. And then, sometimes, I’ll buy it. So it was with some cutey-patootie cubic zirconia earrings I saw at Francesca’s. Which I can’t find on the website to … [Read more…]

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I’m Katie, and this is my personal blog about life with my two daughters, 16-year-old M and 14-year-old J; my husband, Cute W; and our cats, Ruth & Davein Schenectady, NY. I’m also editor at KidsOutAndAbout.com, and I do freelance writing. For more information, contact me at capitaldistrictfunblog [at] gmail [dot] com.